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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1906
Page
6
Sealed bids in Muscatine Iowa due May 7 1906 for cleaning and reopening Goshen ditch in multiple sections with excavation estimates and totals. Bids by section include bonding cash checks and 25 percent sureties with completion by November 1 1906.
Professor G Holden of Ames College warns Iowa farmers seed corn is in poor condition. He reports 500 tested samples with 26 bad per 200 kernels and 15 weak kernels, urging germination tests on six kernels per ear and free Bulletin No.77 on testing and preparing seed corn.
The George Batten company announces its relocation from the Potter building to the Metropolitan Annex at 15 East Twenty-fourth Street, one floor on the eleventh. Founded in 1891 with a 12 by 14 foot office and one clerk, they now employ over fifty and report annual business exceeding two million dollars.
A drugstore ad claims no cases of pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar and urges refusal of substitutes. It promotes Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store and cautions that the genuine product in a yellow package contains no opiates and is safe.
Charles W. Seymour delivered a fifth city lecture on Catherine II of Russia. The talk highlighted her determination to expand education, open Russia to foreign influence, and modernize society while recounting her marriage to Peter III and her rise to empress. Her alliance with Potemkin and efforts to secure Crimea are described amid praise for expanding schools and culture.
Speechless with wonder are the friends of those cured of stomach liver and kidney trouble by Fledric Bitters. 50 cents guaranteed. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Nearly 100 neighbors joined a quilting bee at the Beik residence near Grandview last Tuesday. The day featured quilting, social conversation, a noon feast of cakes puddings and pies, extensive desserts and meats, plus music by Miss Jessie Cocklin Miss Lizzie Betk and the Misses Foxweell.
At the McCutcheon lecture last night attendees signed pledges for next year’s Star Course. More signatures are expected as many who attended this year did not sign yet. The drive aims to salvage a project once a financial failure and turn the course into a break even, with Rev J W Potter urging continued support.
The funeral of the late Dr J H Kulp was held yesterday at 2 PM from 132 College Avenue with Rev G DeWitt Dowling officiating. Pallbearers were six medical colleagues. Interment followed at Fairmont cemetery.
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